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Monday, March 09, 2015

Protests Continue in Sicily at US Space Tech Base

A hundred miles off the coast of Africa, the American military has
built a base in Niscemi, Sicily. Behind the cordoned-off facility, there
is a new war instrument called the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS).

The MUOS system includes four ground station facilities. The four ground stations, each of which serves one of the four active satellites of the MUOS constellation will be located at: the Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station at Kojarena about 30 km east of Geraldton, Western Australia; Naval Radio Transmitter Facility (NRTF) Niscemi about 60 km from Naval Air Station Sigonella, Sicily, Italy; Naval SATCOM Facility, Northwest Chesapeake, Southeast Virginia; and the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific, Hawaii.

Along with transmitter stations in Virginia, Hawaii and Australia, the MUOS bases will function as a relay station for instantaneous multimedia communication between U.S. armed forces personnel stationed around the world.

According to journalist Antonio Mazzeo Due, “The MUOS embodies the many
contradictions of neoliberal globalization. It kills in the name of
peace and order. It destroys the climate, the environment, the land. It
squanders human and financial resources.”

Sicilian activists are against the military exploitation of their land and have been
organizing to fight against the MUOS. For the No MUOS resistance Sicily
is a bridge of peace between Africa and Europe.

High power broadcast transmitters at mobile frequencies are the source
of concern among the local residents, who fear cancer-inducing effects
and other health hazards. The environmental impact of the station is
also a source of concern. Niscemi is home to “la Sughereta”, a nature
reserve containing one of the few wild cork oak woods still left in the
country.